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Category Archives: Quotes

Provocations, worth exploring further

Facing the monster inside

10 Friday Jun 2016

Posted by B* in Embrujo | Sorcery, Quotes

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… when I sit down to write a first draft — the one in which I discover what I’m trying to say — I look away from [the] photographs [of those I love]. This is when I grow fangs, and my breath turns fiery. This is when I come closest to being a monster.

I write to find out what I know, what I think, what I fear. And I can’t do that if I’m censoring myself. I don’t need to worry about anyone else, because no one else will be reading this draft. This is such an important point for writers to remember. We can always dial it back, revise, rethink, later. In fact, we had better do all these things. But until we let the monster out of her hiding place, we won’t even know her face

Dani Shapiro, On Betrayal

Time to murder and create

12 Thursday May 2016

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There will be time to murder and create,

And time for all the works and days of hands

That lift and drop a question on your plate;

Time for you and time for me,

And time yet for a hundred indecisions,

And for a hundred visions and revisions,

Before the taking of a toast and tea.

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T.S. Eliot

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Clarity, empowerment, taste…

06 Sunday Mar 2016

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We value clarity too much. The Greeks considered it only one of the seven modes of expression.

Mark Rylance

I want to empower women.
I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.

Alexander McQueen

 Good taste is the enemy of creativity

Pablo Picasso

Politics | Propaganda

12 Thursday Nov 2015

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International relations are still about
who can do what to whom

Robert D. Kaplan

Rien ne vous tue un homme comme d’être obligé de représenter un pays

Jacques Vaché [carta a André Breton]

Propaganda is the collapse of language

Lev Rubinstein

La política no es más que una torpe
simplificación de las cosas.

El escritor trabaja justamente de la forma opuesta;
trata de mostrar lo oculto, la complejidad.

Patrick Modiano

Satire vs Cynicism

08 Friday May 2015

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Satire is both pessimistic and idealistic: it points up hypocrisy by recognition of something superior. Cynicism is different because it makes hypocrisy disappear; it has no means to measure aspiration and the falling-short…

“… [T]he vengeance of cynicism [on art and fiction is that it precludes idealism, offense & satire’s capacity to show us alternatives]. Art must be realistic to the point of brutality because realism is identified with honesty…

In modern art, shit literally wins prizes

From: Utopian Dreams, by Tobias Jones

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